Organize and find photos in OneDrive

After you upload photos, OneDrive helps you organize and find your photos with features such as photo search, tags, and albums.

To help you find photos, the date appears over the scroll bar as you scroll up and down your photos:

Search photos

You can use the Search photos command to not only scan photo tags and metadata, but also extract and search text shown in photos. It now can also recognize objects in a photo, as another way to find the picture you want.

Edit or remove a tag

OneDrive automatically creates tags for things it recognizes. Sometimes it makes mistakes, but you can remove or edit the tags for a photo.

Select the photo.

Select Edit tags.

Type a new tag or select the x next to a tag to remove it. (You edit tags by adding or removing them.)

Automatic album creation

OneDrive can automatically create an album from any pictures or videos you take that day or weekend, and notify you when it's ready.

Automatic albums are sent only with you, but contain a sharing link so anyone you send the email to will also have access to that album.

To stop OneDrive from automatically creating albums, go to the Photos settings page on the OneDrive website and turn off the Create albums automatically when I upload photos setting. (To get to photos settings from the OneDrive home page, click Settings > Options > Photos.)

Create your own album

You can organize your photos into an album that you can share with friends or family.